Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-12
COAST CULL.INGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.

A nook anu idtluci toiuP''J ~
been formed in Spokane.
Idaho is said to have n population
of $4,000 and has thirty-three newspa-
pers.
Spokane Falls is TO have q stove lac
tory, paper mill, oil factory and woolen
mills
A German Methodist Episcopal
Church is to be erected at Spokane
Falls.
A company has been organized to
navigate the Columbia above Prize S
Rapids.
III. Wachorst leaped into II blazing
basement at Sacramento, and saved
his little boys life.
JOSEPH Porter fell under a wagon
which he was driving near Gualala,
CAL, and was killed.
Thos. Hartley was killed by falling
down the shaft of the Burlington
mine at Butte, Montana.
John Thomas was killed on Stock
creek, Idaho, the wheel OF the wagon
lie was driving passing over his head.
The President has accepted two sec
tions, aggregating thirty-four miles, OF
the Cascade branch Of the Northern
Pacific Railway.
Chas Williams and Dan Sheehan
fell down the shaft of the Jay Gould
mine at Idaho City, Montana, and
were fatally injured.
Mrs. J. M. Bowers was fatally crushed
by the collapse of a brick building
which workmen were raising to the
street grade at Butte, Montana.
Charles, bus driver, of Olympia,
w. IT,, who was thrown from Il wagon
and killed, was the second man killed
by the same team within six weeks.
Judge Dillenbaugh, ex probate judge
Of Chehalis, w. t., attempted to com
nit suicide by shooting himself with Il
}2-caliber revolver through the head.
s. d. Topine, a Tuscarora (Nev.)
canister, fell asleep while on the way
With load from that town to Bull Run
Basin and fell off his wagon and was
xilled
A heavy sea tore the schooner G. III.
Merritt from her dock and cast her on
he rocks, at Wesport, Cal, where she
Don went to pieces. Part Of her
reight had been landed. The crew es-
,aped with difficulty.
Some kind OF disease last winter
killed every rabbit in the Weiser val
ley, Idaho. In the winter of lS79-S0
a strange fatality tackled the jack rab-
bits of Nevada and came near extei
them.
A freight train was ditched by the
spreading of the rails at a point neal
Perris, Cal, on the Southern Pacific
Engineer George Stone was caught
beneath his engine and was cooked t.
death by escaping steam, the train
hands who could see him and hear lii
cries OF agony, being powerless to re
lease him.
Lou Robertson, formerly clerk o
the court at Rathdrum, l. T., was ia
tally shot at Wardner. The decease,
was in room with woman when tn
shot was fired, and the woman state
that she does not know whether h
shot himself or was shot by some pan
ties outside. The whole case i
shrouded in mystery.
A party of five persons, compose,
of young man named Manuel JIG
seph, John Roth and wife, Annie Ba,
tolmae and James Ross, went out o.
San Francisco bay for sail and hay
not since been heard from. ACCORD
ing to the testimony of a young gin
ON the shore, the boat capsized nea
Goat Island and all were drowned.
A disastrous fire ragged in the busi
ness part of Dayton, w. T., destroy
ing property to the value OF $1l5,00(
About one half the amount is covere
by insurance. All the city record
were destroyed. The Office OF til
Columbia Chronicle was burned, bu
Messrs. White & Rainwater, the pull
fishers, Immediately purchased fror
Palmer & Rey, Portland, complet
| outiiO ult iebutu tllC CHfOUNtt VIII
full details of the fire.
A 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mr.
Frank Bates, who live at Ilwaco, "
T., met with a somewhat remalkabl
accident, which came near proving fl
tai. The child had been missed fc
about three hours, and after thoroug
search was found i'll a well near til
house. The little fellow when ftun
was standing in the well, the water u
to his chin, and was about exhauste,
He was taken home, and restorative
being applied, came around all right
An unknown man called at a hous
in Smith Hollow, near Dayton, w. 7
and stated that he had taken drin
from bottle found at sheep cam
close by, and believed he was poisone
as he felt very bad. He called for
drink of milk, which was given hin
and as soon as he had taken it he fe
over dead, without giving his name {
further particulars. 1t was found tn,
the bottle he had drank from COZ
tanned aconite, which he mistook fC
brandy.
-7eFds SJtiRqs says There ar
plenty OF recipes for lobster salad, bu
none to prevent its giving YOU tn